If you can dream it, you can do it.Walt Disney

I grew up watching Walt Disney’s “The Wonderful World of Color”. I could hardly wait until 5:00 PM on Sunday evenings, even though we had to turn the show off a little early to go to 6:00 PM worship services. The shows were wholesome and nearly always built around a good set of strong moral principles, so Mom and Dad never minded us watching as long as we were ready to go when the time came.

There was something magical about the opening of the show. It started off with fireworks and a castle! Then the announcer (I can still hear his rich, animated voice) came on and gave the needed details from last week’s show, as well as a few teasers to peek your interest for the evening’s show.

The shows were about pirates and castaways and absent minded professors. They were funny and exciting and absolutely riveting.

The bad guys never won, back in Walt’s day, nor were there any scantily clad girls or suggestive themes.

It was always a dream world, and I miss those days more than just a little bit.

Walt had a theme – “If you can dream it, you can do it” - that, when you think about it, was really built on a teaching from Jesus’ ministry. Jesus said, “If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.” Now the context was to His apostles and clearly was only usable according to God’s will, but what a promise it was!

We, today, can ask for anything in Jesus’ name and, if it’s according to God’s will and furthers His kingdom – and we ask believing – we will receive it!

Wouldn’t that type of understanding change your life? Wouldn’t it make it more fulfilling and, at times, even more exciting? Wouldn’t it make a difference in the way you viewed life? Wouldn’t it make just getting out of bed more exciting because you knew the day was going to be jam-packed with meaningful living?

Wouldn’t life be different if you knew you were going to Heaven if you would just be faithful?

If you can dream it, you can do it!

“Ask and it will be given you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.”

Jesus (Matthew 7:7, RSV)